... a civil war against Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists. Losing China to the communists was a devastating blow to the United States. China was faced with the need for military and economic aid which it eventually received from Russia. In 1958, Mao began the Great Leap Forward. Thirty million Chinese starved to death during the Great Leap Forward, making it one of ... the main goals of the Cold War. As said in LaFaber, "Co-existance is not only the absence of war between the two systems, but also peaceful economic competition between them, and concrete cooperation in economic, political...

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